Aston Villa are awkwardly sitting in mid-table despite having one of the highest-paid squads ever to grace the Championship.

Sadly, Stoke City are even lower in the table having also pushed the boat out in the summer.

But if the table was judged on attendances, the claret and blues would be the clear table-topper top for the 2018/19 season to date... and the Potters would be doing a lot better than their 17th place too.

Villa have both the highest average attendance and highest overall attendance this season, with Leeds United, Nottingham Forest, Derby County and Sheffield United also featuring in the top six across both categories.

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Norwich City have the fifth highest average attendance this season with 25,792 but rank ninth with 26,933 for the highest single attendance from any game in 2018/19 which shows a degree of consistency in their crowds.

Middlesbrough take their place in the top four for highest attendances this season with 30,881 while Villa and Leeds are the undisputed top two across the board.

The Potters are seventh for average attendances on 24,857, and the eighth highest on 28,586.

Here are the numbers for all of the average and highest attendances so far this term...